Artificial fuel.



FFICE.

\VILLIAM ROBINSON PEAKES, OF VINEYARD HAVEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,850, dated April29, 1902.

Application filed September 28, 1901. Serial No. '76,889- (N0specimens.)

T0 ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WI LIAM ROBINSON PEAKEs, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Vineyard Haven, in the county of Dukes and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Artificial Fuel, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to artificial fuel, and

more particularly to a compound adapted to be used in place of driftwoodfor the purpose of producing a brilliant and beautiful fire in an openfireplace. It is well known that driftwood when burned in an openfireplace pro-.

duces flames of varying colors; but these colors are only produced atintervals and not continuously. It is also well kn own that ordinaryfire-wood will not produce the same color that driftwood'will; and theobject of my invention is to provide a compound to be used in connectionwith ordinary fire-wood and which can be sprinkled over the said woodfsothat when the wood is burned in an open fireplace the same coloring willbe produced as though driftwood were being burned, and, further more,the various-colored flames maintain uniformly for a period of one hour.

The invention consists in the details hereinafter described,and pointedout in the claim.

In carrying out my invention I employ a powderwhich is put up in packageform and is sprinkled over the ordinary fire-wood just before lighting.This powder is alsoa disinfectant; as well as'a cheerful burner, and incompounding the same I employ the following ingredients in equalmeasure--namely, sawdust, salt, blue vitriol, charcoal, sulfur, andcopperas.

Thepowder is only sprinkled over the fuel when there is bed enough tocatch the powder, and when loose sticks are employed to build the firethe box of artificial fuel is placed among the pieces of wood andpermitted to burn the same as a piece of wood.

' Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, isp A compound to be used inconnection with fire-wood and consisting of sawdust, salt, blue vitriol,charcoal, sulfur and. copperas in the proportions set forth.

WILLIAM ROBINSON PEAKES.

Witnesses: 1 CHARLES D. OLIVER, E. I 01101); OLIVER.

